Audience Response (TurningPoint)

The University's TurningPoint audience response systems allows students to participate
in presentations or lectures by submitting responses to interactive questions using
a ResponseCard™ keypad or their mobile phones. Using TurningPoint, faculty PowerPoint
presentations become powerful data collection and assessment tools that collect real-time
student responses, engage students and assess their learning.

Audio-Visual Services

The AV staff maintain Audio-visual equipment in more than 80 equipped classroom, lecture,
lab, and meeting spaces on our campus. AV also provides operating staff and equipment
for all university special events and student programming, as well as implements and
configures emerging technologies to continue to improve student success.

Collaboration (Google Apps)

Google Apps for Education gives all faculty, students and staff a state-of-the-art
communication and collaboration platform to supplement our existing e-learning infrastructure.
We have the ability to share and collaboratively edit documents compatible with Word,
Excel and PowerPoint.

Learning Management System (Blackboard)

Blackboard is the primary learning management system and University Portal at USciences. Blackboard Learn is a highly customizable and integrated system with tools for hosting
online courses, storing and managing course material, collaborating on documents and
projects, and assessing the success of students and courses.

Lecture Capture (Mediasite & Panopto)

Lecture capture allows instructors to record what happens in their classrooms and
make it available electronically through our Learning Management System. The recorded
content includes a video of the presenter, their slide materials, and often additional
images of accompanying documents.

We use Mediasite in the major lecture halls to capture high quality video of the instructor
and everything that is projected in class. Panopto is a lecture capture system used
in smaller classrooms. Panopto can also be used by instructors to record screencasts
and learning modules in the convenience of their own office.

Several of our programs currently use iPads for both classroom instruction and for
mobile access to course content. The iPad offers an array of educational tools for
students and faculty including access to the Blackboard Learn LMS for iOS and Android. There are also apps for interactive textbooks, anatomy diagrams, newsletters, and
professional organizations.

Technology Training Center

The Technology Training Center (TTC) is located in the McNeil Science and Technology
Center, room 151. It was established to meet the technology needs of faculty and staff
through hands-on learning and demonstrations. The center is equipped with 12 computers,
as well as two 60" flat-panel displays for instruction. The TTC provides the USciences
community with a dedicated workspace for educational technology training

Web Conferencing (Adobe Connect)

Adobe Connect is USciences’ web conferencing platform for web meetings, eLearning,
and webinars. It allows faculty and staff to connect with students and colleagues
to host live "virtual" meetings, almost anywhere and on any device.